Heather Linn - Comptia Pentest+ Certification All-In-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam Pt0-002)

Heather Linn is a red teamer, penetration tester, threat hunter, and cyber security strategist with more than 20 years of experience in the security industry. During her career, she has consulted as a penetration tester and digital forensics investigator and has operated as a senior red team engineer inside Fortune 50 environments. In addition to being an accomplished technical editor, including Gray Hat Hacking (McGraw Hill, 2018), Heather has written and delivered training for multiple security conferences and organizations, including Black Hat USA and Girls Who Code. Heather has contributed to open-source frameworks for penetration testing and threat hunting. She holds or has held various certifications, including OSCP, CISSP, GREM, GCFA, GNFA, and PenTest+.

Ray Nutting is a security practitioner with over 20 years experience in the field of information security. He is the co-owner and founder of nDepth Security, a managed security service provider that specializes in penetration testing. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in computer information systems and a concentration in information systems security. He holds numerous industry-recognized certifications, including the ISC2 CISSP and ISSEP, EC-Council C|EH v5, and the CompTIA PenTest+, and has presented at various conferences and events throughout his career.

Ryan Linn has over 20 years in the security industry, ranging from systems programmer, to corporate security, to leading a global cybersecurity consultancy. Ryan has contributed to a number of open-source projects, including Metasploit and the Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF). Ryan participates in Twitter as @sussurro, and he has presented his research at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat and DEF CON, and has provided training in attack techniques and forensics worldwide.

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This book is dedicated to my mom. Thank you for fostering my creativity, showing me patience, and teaching me the underappreciated value of a well-timed and genuinely stupid joke.

Heather Linn

Id like to thank all of the open-source security practitioners who have contributed in some way, shape, or form to the greater good of improving and standardizing information security practices. To name everyone who has contributed would require a book all to itself, but to name a few I would say thank you to OWASP for providing foundational learning material on the arts of web and mobile application security testing. Thank you to all those who contributed to the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM); the Information Systems Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF); the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES); and the CVE, CWE, CAPEC, and ATT&CK framework provided by MITRE. Thank you to PentesterLab and other silent contributors who have shared their knowledge and expertise on certain subjects to help inspire the development of certain exercises used in this book. I would like to acknowledge and extend a big thank you to McGraw Hill, especially my acquisitions editor, Lisa McClain; my coordinators, Emily Walters and Caitlin Cromley-Linn; and copy editor, Lisa McCoy. It takes an absolute village. Thank you for keeping me on track and making sure I sound as smart as possible. Thanks to my tech editor, Ryan Linn, for fact checking and proofing my code. And thank you to all of my friends who have helped me along the way. You know who you are!